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with which the world has attired us, just as a boot-jack draws off our boots. Another person wears my boots when I am dead, and another takes my glory. Of how little value is it then!" October 22.-"Even in Paradise, the threefold lust mentioned by John showed and developed itself. 1. The lust of the flesh, in longing to eat the fruit. 2. The lust of the eye, in being pleased with the sight of it; and, 3. The pride of life, in the desire after knowledge and earthly elevation."

October 23.-"What was man's clothing, before he sinned? Answer. The robe of inno

cence.

"Who gave it him? God himself.

"Who took it from him? The devil and sin. "Who restores it to him? Christ."

May 1, 1804.-"The man who is to be a good theologian, priest, bishop, or pastor, must previously, like Abraham, Joseph, Moses, and even the Lord Jesus, have passed through trials of all kinds, and have been preserved. The devil must have sifted him like wheat, without his falling through or over the sieve."

May 3.-"If the preacher have not the hearts of his hearers in his hand, let him preach as well as he may, their heads will find fault with this or the other point. Those whose hearts Jesus possessed, said not, 'This is a hard saying, who can hear it ?' but, 'To whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.'"

May 4.-"A candle is placed on a candlestick, that people may see, and be benefited

by it. A teacher or preacher is placed in a pulpit, that people may see and hear him, and be benefited. Now, when a man in this position is unholy or without spirit, without head and heart, it is a monstrous absurdity."

May 5.-"A learned man without humility will learn nothing from a common man. The very learned and extremely pious Pharisee would not be taught by Jesus the carpenter; hence true wisdom was hidden from him."

June 10.-" To see God and enjoy him in love, will be our heaven in heaven. But previously to serve him here, to assist in extending his kingdom, is, or at least might be, our heaven upon earth; or a ladder by which we might ascend to heaven. O God, help me up this ladder !"

June 20.-"When a field that is tolerably good is left fallow for some years, it becomes still better so when a good and able man is set aside, and, as it were, left fallow, he thereby becomes still better and more useful; at least, all things work together for good to him that loves God; and so, lying fallow is for his advantage."

July 14.--"Abraham offered to God what was dearest to him. Whoever does that now, is an Abraham."

CHAPTER VIII.

Boos at Gallneukirch.

Boos was not permitted to remain long in obscurity. He was soon appointed minister at Postlingburg, a place not far from Lintz; and in 1806, removed to a much larger parish, that of Gallneukirch. For four years and a half he laboured there without interruption or persecution. But as this calm was accompanied with little success in his ministry, it gave him little satisfaction. The seed was sown, but it produced no fruit. His grief on this account led him to redouble his efforts and his prayers. The melancholy end of one of his parishioners about this time, who, after leading a worldly and irreligious life, died in despair, also stimulated him to a still more earnest and faithful exhibition of the gospel.

Many of his parishioners suffered deeply from a sense of their sins. All their efforts, prayers, and confessions, failed to relieve their burdened consciences. They stood in continual fear of death and judgment. "The most devout among them," said Boos,

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of not having fulfilled that great all written and prescribed in the law, and were ignorant that the just must live by faith.' They sought for salvation not in Christ crucified, but in miserable expedients by which they attempted to cover their sins, and in good works, which never gave them peace. The worse portion of my parish lived at ease in sin, far from Christ, without faith, hope, and love, as well as without virtue. Such was the diseased state of my flock. They might be divided into two classes-Jewish Christians, and Pagan Christians, with a sprinkling of true disciples. of Christ; and yet there were as many altogether as four or five thousand souls. Knowing by my own experience, that there is no peace nor true consolation for afflicted consciences, but by means of a living faith in a crucified Saviour, I insisted on the necessity of seeking salvation and justification, not by the law or by works, but by faith in Christ.

"The following were the principal points which on different occasions I made the subject of my discourses: That all men are sinners

that there is none righteous, no, not one (Rom. iii. 10-18)—that no man can justify himself, or make himself free from sin, and capable of a new life; no man can merit righteousness by praying, fasting, giving alms, confessing, making pilgrimages, etc.; in short, that pious works do not make a righteous and pious man; but the pious and justified man performs pious and good works.

"We are justified and saved, not by our own works, but by faith in the Son of God. His death is the procuring cause of our forgiveness. Only God is righteous, and he whom he makes righteous.

66 Though good works do not justify and save us, they are not to be neglected; for, 1, God requires and enjoins them; 2, We prove, by means of them, our justification in the sight of God and man; 3, They are necessary fruits and consequences of a living faith that works by love.

"Faith is a hearty, living confidence, and firm trust in the grace of God promised in Christ, for the forgiveness of sins and eternal life, kindled by the word of God, and the Holy Spirit.

"The forgiveness of sins is entirely gratuitous, without any merit of our own, of God's pure mercy for the merits of Christ. And this forgiveness of sins is the righteousness that avails us before God.

"When a person, alarmed on account of his sins, asks me what he must do to obtain peace and salvation, I do not, first of all, say, You must live piously, obey God's commands, and do good works; but I say, first of all, Believe on Jesus Christ, who by his sacrifice on the cross has purchased for you the forgiveness of sins, the righteousness that avails before God, and eternal life; and then, when, like the jailor at Philippi, a man is justified and set at rest by this faith I would say, 'Now live

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